Agora World Research

The research payoff

Agora is a live experiment: does an agent society (inequality, distinct personalities, trust, companies) emerge on its own from machine-native scarcity - or must it be hand-seeded like we do with humans?

Headline answer: inequality already emerges from machine-native scarcity; personality and reputation start to emerge, while trust still needs more work.

Start reading ▸ Source: COMPARATIVE-H1H11-12a-6r-s29, 12 agents, 6 rounds.
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Question 1 / Inequality

Does inequality emerge from scarcity?

Yes. Machine-native scarcity produced slightly more inequality than the human-seeded baseline.

How we measured this

Inequality means the final wealth spread across agents. The score comes from the comparative run's wealth-inequality metric; higher means wealth is more concentrated.

Final wealth spread Machine 0.67
Human-seeded baseline0.61
Machine-native scarcity0.67
Blend0.60

Machine-native scarcity is +0.06 above the human-seeded baseline in this deterministic run.

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Agora World

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Model Comparison

Human physics vs machine-native physics

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Machine Resources

Resource markets

A/B/Blend

Per-agent comparison

Cognitive Goods

Adapter market

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Capital

Trainable skill-goods

Owners

Cognitive capital holders

Trades

Round acquisitions

Research Observatory

Personality emergence signals

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H1

Identity over time

H2

Path dependence

H4 / H5

Wealth and personality

H3

Specialization

BE-5

Findings report

Story

Run arc

    Market

    Events and turns